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...forces are operating.AP And in the far north, U.S. forces fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at suspected positions of AnsaralIslam guerrillas, accused of having ties to al-Qaida terrorists. Neighboring Iran protested hits on Iranian territory...

...government-held city of Kirkuk and its oil fields. Heavy machine-gun fire and bombardment were reported near positions of Ansaral-Islam extremists, who are alleged to have ties to al-Qaida terrorists and have come under sporadic attack by the United...

...Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Ansaral-Islam said it killed Sheik Mahmoud Finjan because he was...elections because we are going to attack voting centers," Ansaral-Islam said in a statement posted on a Web site used by insurgents...

...jihad, but not doing anything." Ansaral-Islam, a group with links to al-Qaida...December, three suspected members of Ansaral-Islam were arrested in Berlin on charges...financial and recruiting support for Ansaral-Islam, allegedly organizing medical...

...Scandinavian country. The indictment centered on statements that Mullah Krekar - the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansaral-Islam - made to various news media, including American network NBC. Terrorism has also been a concern in neighboring Denmark...

Houzan Mahmoud, an outspoken Iraqi feminist, recently opened her e-mail and found a message from Ansar-alIslam, a notorious Sunni jihadist group. The message simply read, "We will kill you by the middle of March." Houzan also is a 34-year-old...

...knocked out in the capital. Officials in Biyare, in northern Iraq, said the assault on a compound controlled by Ansaral-Islam turned up documents, computer discs and other material belonging to Arab fighters from around the Middle East. The...

...military has also warned of foreign Islamic militants slipping into the country and has said an al-Qaida linked group, Ansaral-Islam, was a possible suspect in the Jordanian Embassy bombing. Dia'a Rashwan, an expert on radical Islam at Egypt's...